Saturday, June 15, 2013

Since today is the anniversary of Jean Grey and Scott Summers's wedding, let's go out of chronology this Psaturday and take a peek at Psylocke's appearance at the Wedding of the Century until Storm got married to Black Panther which had about the exact same eventual happy result.

Scott was so grateful that Charles Xavier tied his bow tie for him, that right there and then Cyclops vowed to never kill Professor X.

Happy Nineteenth Anniversary, you crazy kids!

Hey, wait, in 1994, June 15 was on a Wednesday BENDIS YOU LAZY RESEARCHER

A late addition!: Now, I can't figure out why this comment showed up in my email but not in the comments for this post, but observant commented OTL said:

But... didn't Scott and Jean get married in the winter? There was snow on the ground around the mansion, but Storm used her powers to make it, like, 70 degrees there so the wedding would have nice weather. (I'm not misremembering this, am I?) So... yeah, that's definitely some lazy research there...

Huh, yeah, you're right, OTL! The story in X-Men #30 takes place in January!

So, thank you, OTL! With your eagle-eyed help, we can yet again see that Brian Bendis could have done the proper research, but he just didn't care.

Below you'll find an image from the current movie Man of Steel, and below that, a photograph taken the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City.

I saw Man of Steel in the theatre today...or more accurately, about three-quarters of it. The memories that the first image above brought to my mind of the events of the second disturbed me to such a great degree that, for the first time in my life, I left a film before it had ended. (And I sat through Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes in its entirety, folks.)

Wait, what's this? Huh, it looks like the word WEIRDeST has been pasted on top of this ad!:

Hmm, I wonder what the word underneath it was before they posted "weirdest" on top. I'm going to make an educated guess, actually: because turning into a turtle or a witch doctor or Elastic Lad is just another day in the life of James Susan Olsen, I'm guessing it was probably this:

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Hey, I bet you remember this exciting action sequence from the worst James Bond movie, OctopussyMoonraker, in which 007 is trapped in one of NASA's high-speed G-force test centrifuges, in which the astronauts not only train but they also mix their delicious, cold refreshing Tang. How will James get out, how will he get out?

Oh. He used a gadget. Cheatypants. James Bond is a big cheatypants!

Well, that was pretty impressive, Mr. Simon Templar, but I think that you know what we say around here: Batman Did It First! And he did it in this story entitled "Batman Pounds a Beat!" Not to be confused with the tale of financial espionage and how Bruce Wayne supported the United Kingdom's move from cash sterling to the euro, entitled "Batman Beats the Pound!"

Whoa, mama! Batman did that in 1953, and James Bond didn't do that until 1979. Later if you watched it on the ABC Sunday Night Movie! In fact, since Ian Fleming published the book of Moonraker in 1954, maybe he stole the idea from Batman! Huh? Huh? Did you ever think of that? Fleming, ya rotten bat-plagiarist! Except the novel Moonraker had nothing to do with the movie and is in fact the only James Bond novel which takes place entirely in England, without a single scene in any exotic locale such as Hong Kong, Jamaica, or Gotham City. So I guess we can't pin this crime on Ian Fleming. (Darnit!) And the novel has been reprinted many, many more times than the Batman story.